A Fulham kitchen extension and remodel

A kitchen extension and a complete reworking of the ground floor. The house is in Fulham. This is what the project involved.

The design

The brief started with how the family used the back of the house. It did not start with a floor area. Our designers worked through the layout with the client over several rounds. Nothing was fixed before that, because the extension was only half the job. The rest was the plan of the existing ground floor. It had to change with it.

The build

The house stayed occupied, so the sequence was built around that. It covered protection, dust control, working hours and daily clearing up. Each week began with the client being told what would happen in it. The programme and the cost were reported against the plan. They were not described.

The specification

Materials were chosen to last rather than to photograph. A ground floor takes daily traffic. That decision shows up about three years in. That is long after the photographs are taken.

What one contract changed

Architecture, interior design, project management and construction all sat with NU. The opening-up found something nobody had drawn. The same team priced it, agreed it and built it. That is the difference between a variation and an argument.

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